A memorial to the thousands of horses shipped into battle from Hampshire during World War One has been unveiled. About 110,000 of the 1.3 million horses and mules involved in the conflict passed through a giant military depot just outside Romsey. The life-sized statue of a horse and officer in the …
Romsey has taken the statue to its heart.” The statue stands on a plinth that rests on a concrete base. Four horseshoes from the battlefields of Flanders are embedded in the concrete, together with some nail fragments, a Remount Service cap badge and two of the terracotta war horses made at King John’s House.
Campaigners for a permanent memorial to the thousands of horses shipped into battle during WWI have unveiled a bronze model of their statue. About 120,000 of the 1.3 million horses and mules involved in the conflict passed through a giant military depot just outside Romsey in Hampshire.
Romsey WWI war horse memorial model unveiled – BBC News Sep 22, 2013 · Romsey War Horse Project is fundraising for a life-size statue in the town's Memorial Park. It plans to erect the monument in early 2015, 100 years after the depot opened.
Statue unveiled for unsung Romsey war horses. The statue of a war horse has been erected in the War Memorial Park Credit: War Horse. Princess Anne is to unveil a statue of a warhorse in Romsey in memory of the service of horses in war, especially to commemorate those trained in the town during the First World War.
War horse statue being unveiled today in Romsey. Princess Anne will be in the town for the ceremony. Statue is a memorial to horses used in the First World War.
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A life-sized statue of a war horse is to be unveiled in July in Romsey, at the site of the World War I remount camp in the Hampshire town
The cost of statue and alterations to the park is about £80,000. Donations and fundraising has brought in about £55,000 so far. In March 2014, Brough Scott gave a talk at Romsey about the career of his grandfather, General ‘Jack’ Seely, in the Boer War and in World War I.